Manuka Topographic Map Sheet at 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps cover the entire continent of Australia at a 1:250,000 scale, the largest scale for full continental coverage. Each standard map sheet depicts an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features like roads, vegetation, and contours.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for transportation network analysis across the mapped region.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter interval contour data for watershed modeling and terrain assessment.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning and environmental studies.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia through a series of 516 individual map sheets.
• Provides topographic detail at a standardized 1:250,000 scale, with 50-meter contour intervals.
• Includes both natural features (vegetation, hydrography) and constructed features (road, rail infrastructure).

Limitations

• Data is provided in static PDF format, requiring extraction for geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise area-based queries.
• Approximately 50 maps in the series cover non-standard areas, introducing variability in sheet boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published digital topographic map from the AUSTopo series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Australia